Abstract: This chapter addresses a central theoretical and epistemological problem in urban and tourism studies: the complexity of the urban dimensions of tourism. We identify three epistemological obstacles when studying “urban tourism”. First, “urban tourism” as element of sole cities is not the only issue of the relationship between the urban and the touristic, yet other kinds of urban places have been neglected. Second, tourism as genuinely urban phenomenon produces not only urban places, but also urban cultures and is one of the elements of ...
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Economic geography
Regional science